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In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.
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Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
Watson-Watt's remarks in SR did not then, constitute a review of the book but a rebuttal to the Godkin Lectures.
Even the book review by the editors has more significance than the readership's reception.
In 2007, the Times printed another Editor ’ s Note after Hesser published a review of Vegetable Garden by Patricia Wells without disclosing that in 1999, Wells had contributed a jacket blurb for Hesser ’ s book The Cook and the Garden.
Howard Taubman in his New York Times review wrote that Laurents ' " book lacks the fantasy that would make the idea work, and his staging has not improved matters.
* " After an Early Bedtime, Calvin and Hobbes Are Up and Running in a New Collection "-Washington Post book review including broad look at Watterson's career
The 1662 prayer book was printed only two years after the restoration of the monarchy, following the Savoy Conference between representative Presbyterians and twelve bishops which was convened by Royal Warrant to " advise upon and review the Book of Common Prayer ".
In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: " Chaplin was not just ' big ', he was gigantic.
In 1959, Noam Chomsky published a scathing review of B. F. Skinner's book Verbal Behavior.
* In 2004, Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle published the first comprehensive review of the field of self-replication, in their book Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, which includes 3000 + literature references.
In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.
In a review of Charles Babbage's book Decline of Science in England in John Murray's Quarterly Review, he suggested the creation of " an association of our nobility, clergy, gentry and philosophers ".
In 1997, Harper's Magazine published an essay, ostensibly a book review of the DSM-IV, that criticized the lack of hard science and the proliferation of disorders.
The work of assigning a DDC number to each newly published book is performed by a division of the Library of Congress, whose recommended assignments are either accepted or rejected by the OCLC after review by an advisory board ; to date all have been accepted.
In the same letter, Frege used the review of Schröder's book to analyze Husserl's notion of the sense of reference of concept words.
* Toulmin, Stephen, " Fall of a Genius ", a book review of " Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges ", in The New York Review of Books, 19 January 1984, p. 3ff.
In a highly negative review of the book, Dewey wrote a series of articles in The Social Frontier which began by applauding Hutchins ' attack on " the aimlessness of our present educational scheme.
Finkelstein was to later blame Bartov's review for the poor US sales of the book.
In a 1995 review of Rushton's Race, Evolution and Behavior, anthropologist and population geneticist Henry Harpending expressed doubt as to whether all of Rushton's data fit the r / K model he proposed, but nonetheless praised the book for its proposing of a theoretical model that makes testable predictions about differences between human groups.
The biological anthropologist C. Loring Brace criticized Rushton in his 1996 review of the book, Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1996 ):
* New York Times book review of Blood and Thunder
In his lifetime, he published just one book review, one article, a children's dictionary, and the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ( 1921 ).
* David Louis Edelman's review of the book, published in the Baltimore Evening Sun, June 26, 1995
Questions have also frequently been raised about the logic of Marshall's argument for judicial review, for example by Alexander Bickel in his book The Least Dangerous Branch.
book and Soviet
I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.
In response, one month later, the Soviet Union published Falsifiers of History, a Stalin edited and partially re-written book attacking the West.
The book also included the claim that, during the Pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's offer to share in a division of the world, without mentioning the Soviet offers to join the Axis.
In his book, The Gulag Archipelago, Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described cases of cannibalism in 20th-century USSR.
The proposition that special operations by the CIA in Saudi Arabia affected the prices of Soviet oil was refuted by Marshall Goldman — one of the leading experts on the economy of the Soviet Union — in his latest book.
In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?
" The book also included the claim that, during the Pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's offer to share in a division of the world, without mentioning the Soviet offers to join the Axis.
Peter Wright, former senior MI5 officer, said in his 1987 book that Litzi Friedmann was " almost certainly the person who recruited him to the Soviet cause.
Dr. Valerius Geist, who emigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union, wrote in his 1999 book Moose: Behaviour, Ecology, Conservation:
The book also claimed that the Munich agreement was a " secret agreement " between Germany and " the west " and a " highly important phase in their policy aimed at goading the Hitlerite aggressors against the Soviet Union.
In 1943, the Soviet film Nasreddin in Bukhara was directed by Yakov Protazanov based on Solovyov's book, followed in 1947 by a film called The Adventures of Nasreddin, directed by Nabi Ganiyev and also set in the Uzbekistan SSR.
The term was popularized by the Soviet dissident Michael Voslenski, who in 1970 wrote a book titled Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class ().
Milovan Đilas, an opponent of the Soviet regime, wrote of the nomenklatura as the new class in his book The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System, and he claimed that it was seen by ordinary citizens as a bureaucratic élite that enjoyed special privileges and had supplanted the earlier wealthy capitalist élites.
Soviet astronomer Iosif Shklovskii wrote the pioneering book in the field Universe, Life, Intelligence ( 1962 ), which was expanded upon by American astronomer Carl Sagan as the best-selling Intelligent Life in the Universe ( 1966 ).
This later becomes an important element in the next chronological book, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, in persuading a top Soviet official to defect to America.
The book occurs after the Persian Gulf War and before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In the book Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon, it is claimed that he flew the U-2 spy plane, a U. S. Air Force aircraft which took the pictures of Soviet missiles in Cuba which President Kennedy used on television on October 22, 1962.
In his book The Cold War Gaddis argues that, in their use of the phrase " evil empire ," Reagan and his anti-Communist political allies were effective in breaking the détente tradition, thus laying the ground for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.
Early in 1998, reports of a forthcoming book allegedly containing revelations about the origins of the so-called " Zinoviev letter ," based on information from Soviet archives led to renewed press speculation and parliamentary questions.
Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel Farewell to Matyora and in his non-fiction book, Siberia, Siberia.
In a subsequent book, Crimes And Mercies ( 1997 ), Bacque claimed that Allied policies ( particularly Soviet policies ) led to the premature deaths of 5. 7 million German civilians, 2. 5 million ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe and 1. 1 million German P. O. W. s due to Allied starvation and expulsion policies in the five years following World War II.
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